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A CHILD OF SORROW

new feelings in her, which she could not fathom or understand at all, so much so when she could not sleep or rest without being reminded of that eventful meeting.

What is love? She did not know, but her throbbing heart and the pleasing sensation spontaneously thrilling up her whole frame, emanating from the heart, made her understand a little and gleam a fallen ray of that most mysterious of all human feelings.

She was filled with the thoughts and impressions Lucio made on her, and she rather felt happy, why, she could not tell. It was a mystery-an enigma-such a strange thing both to her and to her lover! It was an indefinable sensation that made them happy when together and unhappy when apart.

Ah, she rather repented why she did not answer and why she was so silent and why she did not tell Lucio at once all that she felt and all that she desired and all that she dreamed day and night in order to unload and ease up her aching young heart! Why? She did not know. The whole thing was a question without an answer.

Good heavens! She became restless.

Ah, how many people's lives have been filled with misery and unhappiness because of silence and indifference!

After Rosa left, Lucio was still at the spot and in the same position she left him-gazing at her direction until she faded away from his sight-there standing and philosophizing as if in a trance.

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